Tudor Monastery Farm
2013 · BBC Two · 60 min · 1 season
S01E06 · Episode 6
Thu, 19 Dec, 8:00 am
The team recreate the winter harvest and look at how Henry VIII's Dissolution changed farming life forever.
About
Historian Ruth Goodman and archaeologists Peter Ginn and Tom Pinfold turn the clock back 500 years to the early Tudor period to become tenant farmers on monastery land.
Episodes
- E01
Episode 1
Thu, 14 Nov· 60 minHistorian Ruth Goodman and archaeologists Peter Ginn and Tom Pinfold turn the clock back over 500 years to run a farm in West Sussex exactly as it would have been in 1500.
- E02
Episode 2
Thu, 21 Nov· 60 minThis episode focuses on wool production - known as 'the jewel in the realm' of the English economy.
- E03
Episode 3
Thu, 28 Nov· 60 minThis episode focuses on the staple foods of everyday Tudor life - bread and ale.
- E04
Episode 4
Thu, 5 Dec· 60 minThe team learn how important lead was as a building material, and experiment with a camera obscura.
- E05
Episode 5
Thu, 12 Dec· 60 minThe team explores Tudor hospitality, learning how the monasteries courted wealthy benefactors.
- E06
Episode 6
Thu, 19 Dec· 60 minThe team recreate the winter harvest and look at how Henry VIII's Dissolution changed farming life forever.
